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Chiltern Railways has partnered with leading artists, Heather and Ivan Morison, and Birmingham-based art organisation, Eastside Projects, to commission the latest in a series of contemporary artworks to feature on their new timetable.

The artwork is entitled ‘Trackside walk: Birmingham to London’ and is an interlocking selection of stunning woodcuts inspired by the interplay between the countryside and the line along the route. The artists combine traditional craft techniques to form a science fiction like image of a slowed down, close up, version of reality, normally seen fleetingly from a train window at high speed.

Heather and Ivan Morison have exhibited around the world with their work being represented in influential galleries such as the Tate Modern in London. The artwork will be displayed at stations along Chiltern’s route, showing how transport and art can combine as essential parts of UK public life.

Ivan Morison explained: “We thought about these two huge cities, Birmingham and London. We thought about the line that runs between them and the stops along that line. We thought about the houses and the fields seen from the train window between those stations. We got off the train and walked a rambling route, field by field, village by town by city, a dot to dot of stations, putting all those lives lived along the line into an order, placing them into a story of a trackside walk.”

Rob Brighouse, Managing Director at Chiltern Railways said: “The railway has strong links with the art world reinforcing how it can play an important and inspirational part in everyone’s lives and has the potential to enrich our passengers’ engagement with our stations. This is the most recent in a series of artistic collaborations and showcases how art has the power to make everyday items and spaces more memorable and interesting.”

Gavin Wade, Director of Eastside Projects added: “This is an important commission by two artists who have shown an ongoing commitment to Birmingham since the early 2000s when they first produced ground breaking artworks from their allotment in Edgbaston. Since then they have travelled the world exploring ways of making and storytelling and crafted along the way a fascinating body of work, from performance to architecture, that questions how we live today. ”

As part of the Chiltern Art Collaboration, the train operator worked with Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg for the May timetable artwork and musician and artist Bill Drummond on several initiatives as part of the first leg of his World Tour 2014-2025 curated by Eastside Projects in Birmingham this year.

Birmingham Young Professional of the Year (BYPY) – the annual awards organised by Birmingham Future to celebrate the achievements of young professionals in the city – has announced partnerships with three local organisations for 2013.

Hollywood Monster have completed the re-brand of the Tipton & Coseley Building Society

The premises, 70 Owen Street, Tipton, West Midlands have been re-signed to include a full length facia, two number free standing double sided totems and various wall mounted signs to conform to their new corporate guidelines.

Mike Clarke and Chris Kelly held ‘spotlight’ presentations at the recent Skills Show at The NEC in front of many up-and-coming work hungry students presenting their career journey to date, highlighting what they believe are the key ingredients to a successful career in today’s competitive job market

After having already successfully ‘taken over’ New York and Miami, it was only a matter of time before the Kardashian sisters hit London to do the same over here.

For the first time ever all three sisters, Kourtney, Kim and Khloé landed glamorously in the capital last week to launch their highly anticipated clothing range – Kardashian Kollection, available exclusively in Dorothy Perkins.

Hollywood Monster were hired to manufacture and install the event signage, which included a stage dressing, Mall signage and the promotional signage leading upto the event promoting the forthcoming event in the Atrium at the famous Westfield Shopping Mall in White City, London.

Various materials were used in the displays, to include ceiling rigged hanging cubes, all digitally printed at our factory in Birmingham and transported to the stage which was erected the evening before the event and dressed through the night by our gang at Hollywood.

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Click this story to understand how Hollywood Monster interpreted a brief to clad a temporary showsuite within a construction site in order to help promote our clients houses being built at a site in London

Hollywood Monster has been shortlisted for The Family Business Awards, for Outstanding Contribution, sponsored by Key Personnel. Winners to be announced at the black tie Awards ceremony on 17 November.

Hollywood Monster’s increasing capability means that we can provide a wide variety of services for our client’s. Not simply digital wide format printed banners and graphics or even your everyday typical signage but we also have a fabrication facility on site enabling us to create steel structures, built up letters, acrylic molding, profile cutting, fascia construction and LED illuminations, just to name a few.

During the last week Hollywood Monster have entertained both television and radio crews at their Tyseley head quarters as they print a range of banners for Birmingham City Football’s Carling Cup final.

Tim Andrews, managing director of Hollywood Signs, has embarked on an unusual fitness regime to get in shape for the forthcoming Birmingham half marathon – jogging along the Midlands’ longest hoarding in Longbridge.

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